Report of the National Museum, 第 2 巻U.S. Government Printing Office, 1889 |
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... feet in height by 4 in width , showing head , shoulders , and bust , but only outline of arms , the latter not distinct from the body , but a slightly raised surface carved straight down the side , with the forearms placed across the ...
... feet in height by 4 in width , showing head , shoulders , and bust , but only outline of arms , the latter not distinct from the body , but a slightly raised surface carved straight down the side , with the forearms placed across the ...
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... feet 8 inches in height at the shoulders . * Upon his return from the field Mr. Hornaday at once proceeded to mount a series of six of the finest skins to form a group , with natural surroundings . In view of the near extermination of ...
... feet 8 inches in height at the shoulders . * Upon his return from the field Mr. Hornaday at once proceeded to mount a series of six of the finest skins to form a group , with natural surroundings . In view of the near extermination of ...
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... - logical material from Peru , Ecuador , Bolivia , Chili , Buenos Ayres , and Patagonia , and a specimen of moss from near the Pass of Chicta , Andes Mountains , 15,000 feet above sea - level . Mr. REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY . 45.
... - logical material from Peru , Ecuador , Bolivia , Chili , Buenos Ayres , and Patagonia , and a specimen of moss from near the Pass of Chicta , Andes Mountains , 15,000 feet above sea - level . Mr. REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY . 45.
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United States National Museum. Mountains , 15,000 feet above sea - level . Mr. C. J. Hering , of Surinam , Dutch Guiana , sent a collection of lepidoptera , reptiles , bird - skins , eth- nological objects , etc. In addition to the above ...
United States National Museum. Mountains , 15,000 feet above sea - level . Mr. C. J. Hering , of Surinam , Dutch Guiana , sent a collection of lepidoptera , reptiles , bird - skins , eth- nological objects , etc. In addition to the above ...
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... feet of an ass , showing abnormal development , together with a photograph of the same , were sent by J. C. Baldwin . Dr. R. W. Noble gave a fossil fish - head , found embedded in blue slate rock 20 feet below the surface . Several ...
... feet of an ass , showing abnormal development , together with a photograph of the same , were sent by J. C. Baldwin . Dr. R. W. Noble gave a fossil fish - head , found embedded in blue slate rock 20 feet below the surface . Several ...
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144 ページ - Rockabye Baby, on the tree top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock, When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, Down will come baby, cradle and all.
467 ページ - ... fixed on, the herd is left on the brink of the precipice ; it is then in vain for the foremost to retreat, or even to stop ; they are pressed on by the hindmost rank, who...
375 ページ - running season," and we had heard the " roaring" (as it is called) of the herd, when we were several miles from them. When we came in sight, we were actually terrified at the immense numbers that were streaming down the green hills on one side of the river, and galloping up and over the bluffs on the other. The river was filled, and in parts blackened, with their heads and horns, as they were swimming about, following up their objects, and making desperate battle whilst they were swimming.
380 ページ - ... to secrete themselves, when they are exceedingly put to it on a level prairie, where nought can be seen but the short grass of six or eight inches in height, save an occasional bunch of wild sage, a few inches higher, to which the poor affrighted things will run, and dropping on their knees, will push their noses under it, and into the grass, where they will stand for hours, with their eyes shut, imagining themselves securely hid, whilst they are standing up quite straight upon their hind feet...
382 ページ - ... in concurrence with a known custom of the country, held my hands over the eyes of the calf, and breathed a few strong breaths into its nostrils ; after which I have, with my hunting companions, rode several miles into our encampment, with the little prisoner busily following the heels of my horse the whole way, as closely and as affectionately as its instinct would attach it to the company of its dam...
468 ページ - The snow in these regions often lies during the winter, to the depth of three and four feet, being blown away from the tops and sides of the hills in many places, which are left bare for the buffaloes to graze upon, whilst it is drifted in the hollows and ravines to a very great depth, and rendered almost entirely impassable to these huge animals, which, when closely pursued by their enemies...
215 ページ - The forehead and the back of the head, of the boys, were pressed upwards, so that the upper part of the skull appeared in the shape of a wedge. This, they said, was done, to add to the terror of their aspect, when they should become warriors.
372 ページ - The amazing herds of Buffaloes which resort thither by their size and number, fill the traveller with amazement and terror, especially when he beholds the prodigious roads they have made from all quarters, as if leading to some populous city ; the vast space of land around these springs desolated as If by a ravaging enemy, and hills reduced to plains ; for the land near those springs are chiefly hilly.
373 ページ - Railroad was then in process of construction, and nowhere could the peculiarity of the buffalo of which I am speaking be better studied than from its trains. If a herd was on the north side of the track, it would stand stupidly gazing, and without a symptom.
461 ページ - ... dead buffalo. From old bulls to calves of three months old, animals of every age were huddled together in all the forced attitudes of violent death.